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“You have long enough stayed at this mountain. Turn away, and take your journey . . .” (Deut 1:6–7)

“The mountain we’re talking about is Mount Sinai, scene of the most monumental event in human history: G‑d’s revelation of His wisdom and will to man. Still, G‑d says: “You’ve been hanging around this mountain long enough. Move on!”

In our lives we also have moments, days or years of revelation, times when we learn and grow and are enriched. But the purpose must always be to move on, move away, and carry the enlightenment and enrichment to someplace else—some corner of creation that awaits redemption.”

(The Lubavitcher Rebbe)

We’ve been doing a lot of Scripture study this year. Growing in our faith like we never thought was possible. We don’t follow the Torah portions but today I had an urge to look it up online. What a beautiful gift to find God talking to us through the study.

This week’s Torah portion/Bible verses are Deut 1:1-3:22. When I studied this portion today I found the above quoted love note from God. Our family is moving to southern Iowa this week. A move we feel was led by God. For this study portion to fall on the same week as we move is very cool. Confirmation that our Father is intimately involved in our lives. A loving parental nudge into this new adventure.

Reading on into the study this was the beautiful and fitting ending of the message God gave us on our first “Shabbat of Vision”:

“Each year, on the Shabbat before Tish’ah B’Av, we are shown a vision of our world as a divine home — a place where all G-d’s creatures will experience His presence. But this is also a vision of a G-dly “garment” — the distinctly personal relationship with G-d, particularly suited to our individual character and aspirations, that we will each enjoy when the third divine Temple descends to earth.” (Chabad.org)

I’m doing some health treatments right now and in the need of detox while doing the treatments. One of the things I came across in my research is hydrotherapy or the concept of hyperthermia. Essentially you force your body to have a fever which raises your body temperature to a level that kills bacteria and other nasties in your system. Also it allows you to detox and extricate the gunk through your sweat glands and skin. I don’t have easy access to a gym or spa with a sauna nor the funds to install one in my tiny city house. I considered going to Hot Springs, Arkansas or even a health spa in California with natural hot spring water. But as that’s not something I can do immediately nor on a weekly or daily basis that doesn’t really help me much. Then I read about a technique of taking a hot bath, when it starts to cool empty some of the water and refill with hotter water, and repeat until you’ve been in the hot water for at least forty minutes. Then when you get out of the tub wrap yourself in a sheet and then in a blanket. Then sweat it out for a bit.

So I tried this technique today and it was great. I watched 50 minutes of a movie while keeping my bath water hot, I drank a mug of hot tea, and I made sure to keep my hands and feet under the water. I did not put my head under until the very end when I washed it. After I drank the tea I was really struggling with the heat and I was drenched in sweat. I was really ready to be done by the time I passed the forty minute mark. I got out, did not dry off my body with a towel, but I wrapped my head up in a towel and immediately wrapped up in a sheet, and then cocooned myself into my blanket and finished my movie. I sweated like crazy. When I finally unrolled myself my sheet and blanket were drenched and it even went through to my bed. My face was beat red like I worked out, which doesn’t surprise me because my heart rate was up for quite a bit of it. I’m not sure why that is but I read that was normal too. My skin is super soft and looks healthier. Even my husband commented on it and my three-year-old kept rubbing the soft skin on my leg. I drank a tall glass of water when I got out and will keep drinking to help continue the detox.

So if you don’t have access or funds for a sauna or spa treatment and need to detox, try out the Poor Man’s Sauna. All it takes is a tub, hot water, a sheet, and a blanket. And I highly suggest a distraction from the heat. I watched Hitch with Will Smith and was pretty entertained for the most part. It wasn’t as relaxing as a warm bath normally is for me since the water temp was hotter than my comfort level but it worked great and my skin looks healthier. I also put Epsom Salt in the water to help with the detox.

Excerpted from How Homeopathy Can Help by Ellen Hodgson Brown, J.D.

Like vaccination, homeopathy involves inoculation by challenge with a like toxin, inducing a mild reaction in the body by simulating the larger reaction constituting the disease. Homeopathic remedies consist of minute doses of natural substances — mineral, plant or animal — that if given to healthy people in larger doses would cause the symptoms the patient is experiencing. A nosode is a homeopathic remedy in which the “active” ingredient is diseased tissue or a disease-causing entity (virus, bacteria, parasite, etc.) that has been rendered sterile.

Where vaccination involves viral or bacterial macromolecules that can induce unwanted side effects, homeopathic remedies are without side effects because they are extremely dilute — at some strengths so dilute that no molecule of the original substance is likely to be left in solution. The remedies are repeatedly diluted and “succussed”, or shaken vigorously with each dilution, to increase their vibratory field. The remedies work by stimulating the body’s own healing energy, rather like a tuning fork that sets disharmonious chords back on track.

“Like cures like,” the principle on which homeopathy is based, actually originated long before vaccines. It was formulated by Paracelsus in the sixteenth century. Samuel Christian Hahnemann, M.D. (1755-1843), the German physician who founded homeopathy, reformulated the principle in 1795, a year before Jenner made his cowpox vaccine discovery premised on the same theory.

Dr. Hahnemann was the first practitioner to use remedies prophylactically. He found that a girl whom he had treated with homeopathic Belladonna for an unrelated problem did not develop scarlet fever when the rest of her family got it. Then he found that “provings” of homeopathic Belladonna fit the disease picture of that particular epidemic of scarlet fever, and that by administering Belladonna he could both prevent and cure the disease. Other homeopaths later found that the remedy Ailanthus could prevent scarlet fever. Lathyrus was found to work against polio,Mercurius Cyanthus against diphtheria, Baptisia against typhoid fever. Other remedies were found to be effective against measles, mumps, chicken pox, hepatitis, and so forth.1

Homeopathy became the rage in Europe after cholera swept the Continent early in the nineteenth century. Hahnemann advocated the use of homeopathic Camphor to prevent or treat that disease at a time when he had never seen it but had only heard descriptions of its symptoms. The treatment proved to be remarkably successful. According to Julian Winston, editor in chief of Homeopathy Today, the mortality rate for cholera under conventional treatment in the 1830s was reported at between 40 percent and 80 percent. The mortality rate in London’s ten homeopathic hospitals during that decade was reported at 9 percent; in Bavaria, at 7 percent; in Russia, at 10 percent; and in Austria, at 33 percent (compared to 66 percent under conventional care).2

Cholera also swept the U.S. at that time, along with yellow fever, typhoid, and scarlet fever. When homeopathic treatment proved to be far more successful than conventional medicine in treating those epidemics, homeopathy spread like wildfire across the American continent. In 1844, the American Institute of Homeopathy was founded as the first national American medical society, preceding the American Medical Association (AMA) by several years.

Meanwhile, evidence for the effectiveness of homeopathic nosodes kept accumulating. In the United States during the 1850s, there were several epidemics of yellow fever in the southern states. Mortality from yellow fever using conventional medicine was reported at between 15 and 85 percent. Holcome and Davis, homeopaths in Natchez, reported a mortality of 6.43 percent and 5.73 percent, respectively, in yellow fever victims under homeopathic care during that period. In 1878 the mortality from the same epidemic in New Orleans was 50 percent under allopathic care versus 5.6 percent in 1,945 cases under homeopathic care.3 In the 1860s, a diphtheria epidemic struck. In the records of Broome County, New York, from 1862 to 1864, an 83.6 percent mortality rate was reported among victims treated conventionally, compared to a 16.4 percent mortality rate among those treated homeopathically.4

It could be argued that the disparity in these figures was due more to the nature of nineteenth century conventional treatment, with its emphasis on bloodletting and mercury compounds, than to the virtues of homeopathy itself. But homeopathy continued to score successes in the twentieth century. Its remarkable performance during the influenza epidemic of 1918 was reported in detail in an article in the May 1921 Journal of the American Institute for Homeopathy. Dr. T. A. McCann, of Dayton, Ohio, reported that 24,000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a mortality rate of 28.2 percent, while 26,000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a mortality rate of 1.05 percent. The latter figure was supported by Dean W.A. Pearson of Philadelphia, who recorded the results of 26,795 cases of flu treated homeopathically. In Connecticut, 30 physicians reported 6,602 cases treated homeopathically with 55 deaths, or less than 1 percent.5

Nosodes also performed well in a number of twentieth century polio epidemics. In a 1956-58 study, a researcher named Heisfelder gave Lathyrus to over 6,000 children, in whom no cases of polio and no side effects were reported. Grimmer, a homeopath in Chicago, gave it to 5,000 young children, none of whom developed polio. In a polio epidemic in Buenos Aires in 1975, Lathyrus was given to 40,000 people with the same 100 percent success rate.

Getting back into the school year we have to review our multiplication facts. Some are just harder to remember than others. My oldest son has most of the hard ones memorized by tricks that he learned from his Math-U-See video instructor. Things like: I ate(8) and I ate(8) and that’s what I got sick(6) for(4). Or he’s memorized rhymes that I taught him: six times six is thirty-six. But there are facts like 6×7 and 7×7 that didn’t have any tricks or rhymes until we discovered them today. They are a little more complicated so we’ll see how he does with them in the long run. Also mastering the x3 and x4 facts are key to success. Below I listed our tips and tricks for getting the multiplication table mastered. We also use xtramath.org for doing math drills with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and soon division too.

1’s- anything times one, is itself

2’s- doubles, skip count

Skip count by 3’s, once they have them memorized go faster

Then in order learn the x3 facts, once mastered go faster, then master them out of order

Skip count by 4’s, once they have them memorized go faster

Then in order learn the x4 facts, once mastered go faster, then master them out of order

Yesterday Jax and I took the two and a half hour drive down to Joplin, Missouri to start his Orthotropics treatment. His feelings were relatively benign about the whole thing as we talked on the way down. When we got there Dr. Detar showed Jax the expander that he would be wearing for the next 4-6 months. The doctor inserted it and made the adjustments needed. It was set to the side and next they prepared and installed Jax’s braces. A couple brackets popped off his baby teeth and had to be glued back on. Then they put the expander in for the full effect. Jax panicked and started gagging so we quickly removed it. After a break we tried again which didn’t go any better. So we decided to hold off inserting the expander until Jax adjusted to the change of having braces. He did really great but was a little overwhelmed. Getting the wire put on the brackets was a little rough for him. I was worried that he may be too young to handle all of this.

After we left Detar’s office we went in search of an ice cream place. We found Andy’s and had some delicious custard. It was a distraction and a perk for Jax. Being a mother of four I don’t often get to spend one on one time with my children away from my other children. So getting custard was a special treat. During the ride to the ice cream place we tried inserting the expander several times. Jax showed great effort and I was really proud of him for trying. The child has had a super sensitive gag reflex since he was born. We headed back home and Jax kept trying to keep the expander in for longer durations. He told me that he was fine with the braces but didn’t want to have the expander. That it was no fun and he didn’t like having to do any of this.

Over the course of the next two hours he was able to keep the extender in his mouth for longer periods of time. He did best when he wasn’t focused on it and watching a movie. By the time he got home he was pretty proud of himself for being able to keep it in for so long. When he saw his siblings he was super excited to show them his mouth and all the goodies he got with his Orthotropics. A water flosser, three sided tooth brush, and some wax are awesome to a seven year old. As the evening progressed Jax flipped his perspective. He was no longer having any issues with his expander and kept it in all evening and all night. The pressure of the braces on the other hand made his gums hurt and he was in pain. He told me he’d keep the expander but didn’t like the braces. Poor kid. He had mushroom soup for dinner while the rest of us ate pork chops and zucchini with rice. I gave him Ibuprofen to help him with the pain earlier in the day. At night I gave him some melatonin to help him fall asleep faster.

This morning he struggled at breakfast eating his oatmeal so I gave him some more Ibuprofen. He’s doing much better more. Less complaining about the pain and more goofing around instead of doing his math sheet. So overall it was a rough start but it’s getting better. He adapted pretty quickly in reality. In a few days the pain won’t be so bad. Tonight I will start enlarging the expander by one tiny adjustment. We will continue that each night until his next appointment in 3 weeks. The braces make him look older to me but he’s still my baby and I have to remind myself that this is best for him in the long run. I think he’s young enough that any teasing will be milder than in middle school, and less traumatic than in high school. We’re trying to encourage him to feel special about having them. He goes to enrichment one day a week starting next week. That’s the only interaction I’m worried about since I’m not there to help. He also has co-op but I will be around and can help him explain how neat it is that he gets to have braces. It’s all in perspective. Being positive is key to a happy life. This is going to benefit his character in the long run I think.

So usually in modern day medicine and healthcare there are a lot of treatments that target symptom relief. Usually these treatments don’t treat the problem and often can cause more damage in the process. I believe that for some people the practice of orthodontics does this. There are plenty of people whose jaws grew in just fine but they had crooked teeth for one reason or another and they used conventional orthodontic braces to align their teeth. These are not the people I’m referring to. I’m referring to the people who have an issue with stunted jaw growth and improper tongue placement. When people snore, sleep with their mouth open, suck their thumbs, etc they are not sleeping with their tongue in the correct position. The tongue correctly nestled at the roof of your mouth when you sleep counteracts the pressure placed on the upper teeth from the lips. Without the tongue at the roof of your mouth the lips push the teeth out of alignment. With the mouth open the jaw drops back and doesn’t grow properly. This causes crowding and crooked teeth. Conventional orthodontic treatment does not fix the jaw growth issue and instead they usually extract four teeth, to make room in your mouth. Tooth extraction is dangerous for the body and often causes a myriad of other health issues. The alternative to OrthoDONtics that addresses the problem of a jaw with stunted growth, often before the teeth have the chance to become crooked, is OrthoTROpics(or-thuh-troh-fiks). Orthotropics uses appliances to align the jaw correctly and encourages the mouth to close properly. Treatment time is much shorter than traditional orthodontics, it’s in the range of 6-12 months. It’s also at an age where children are more likely to corporate. Children’s jaws are growing from the ages of 6-10. This is the opportune time to make the bite alignment that encourages the jaw to grow appropriately.

Two days ago I took my two boys to the closest Orthotropic doctor, who was a 3 hour drive south in Joplin, MO. Dr. DeTar was amazing with my boys. He had them completely relaxed, laughing, and having a good time. Which was great because we were there for almost 3 hours. Zavien, my almost 9-year-old was seen first. He was within range for normal jaw growth and the doctor said he had room for his teeth to come in. However, my 7-year-old, Jaxon, exhibited the facial profile, crowded teeth, and permanent grimace that are signs of a jawline that’s not growing correctly. It may be from sucking his thumb as a toddler, but it’s also definitely from sleeping with his mouth open at night. Below are the profiles of my boys. Zavien is in yellow and with his pictures you can really compare to see how Jax’s lack of horizontal jaw growth, he’s in orange, makes Jax look like he has a recessed lower lip, pronounced cheeks, crowded teeth, and a gummy smile. These brothers are 19 months apart in age. The notes to the right of the images are to share the difference to look for in the boy’s profiles.

<grimace, big cheeks<protruding upper lip

In the pictures below the gap between my boy’s front teeth due to their muscle frenum is unassociated with the jaw growth issue. I will be leaving Zavien’s for now as it’s a minor issue and Dr. DeTar thinks will correct on it’s own. Jaxon’s is more prevalent so we will research and closely watch the issue as he grows.

<crooked teeth, no space<gummy smile

Your jaw is suppose to grow in at a 45 degree angle, give or take a little. Jax has more vertical growth than horizontal growth. Basically because he sleeps with his mouth open it causes his jaw to drop down and back. Which means not only does his jaw not grow where it needs to in order to match his upper mouth, but it also means his tongue isn’t pushing his upper teeth into place. So the pressure from his cheeks has made it so there is no room for his adult teeth to fit aligned in his mouth. According to his x-ray when his canines come in they will probably come in through the side of his gums above the rest of his teeth, because there just won’t be any room. My brother actually had this issue as a kid and his canines grew in like this guy pictured to the right. A chronic issue associated with a jaw that has not grown in appropriately, is joint pain and clicking. Also by moving the jaw forward into the correct position it allows more room for the airways and helps prevent breathing issues like sleep apnea. It also corrects the face shape, which has psychological benefits as well. Below is a great quick video from Dr. DeTar that explains the risks of a misgrown jaw and the benefits of Orthotropics.

This is all a learning experience for me. I went with conventional orthodontic treatment at 18 and it made my smile smaller, my teeth crooked even after four years in braces. And the reason it didn’t work for me? I sleep with my mouth open and the pressure of my cheeks crowds my mouth. I can use Orthotropics to help me as well. It will retrain my mouth and jaw for proper positioning 24/7. Essentially creating new habits. My jaw is within normal range but sleeping with my mouth open is my down fall. Someday I will probably get treatment, but for now our four children’s treatments are our focus. In 3-4 years I will take my girls in to get evaluated. Zavien will go back when all his adult teeth are grown in to see if there is any cosmetic straightening that would be beneficial. I hope you’ve found this enlightening and thanks for reading!

We attended the Midwest Parent Educators conference and curriculum expo this past spring and got all our supplies and curriculum for next school year. We purchase mostly from Rainbow Resource because they have the lowest prices but we got some things like our Math-U-See program direct from their booth at a show discount. It’s a great place to look at the different curriculum that are successful on the market. We are all set to go and we are spending any down time this summer finishing up the last few chapters in our 2012-2013 curriculum.

Zavien, 4th Grade

Grammar: First Language Lessons III this is a short lesson that uses repetition in a constructive and non-monotonous way. We’ve both enjoyed it and he retains it.

Writing: Writing with Ease III… this is also a short lesson but you have to be engaged the whole lesson to make sure the child is writing correctly. This is when I’m the most strict with writing. For cursive we are using Classical Conversations Prescripts work books.

Spelling:Phonics for Reading & Spelling (spelling)… this is a good program and works best with consistency. We use an iPad app to study our spelling list each week which has worked really well.

Literature: Classical House of Learning/Grammar Stage/ my son loves to be read to and to draw. This is a great program that ties into our history lesson too.

Reading:McGuffey Readers… great classic curriculum to reinforce reading skills.Christian Lighthouse Education Reading (readers and workbook)… I really like these readers as it teaches good character along with reading. I got the workbooks to help with comprehension but it’s been less about comprehension and more about reading skills. After a section of these readers my son has to spend the rest of his 1 hour of reading in elective books. He reads Magic Tree House, the Geronimo Mouse series, the Dragon Keeper’s series, and he just got the Hardy Boy’s.

Poetry: The boys memorize one poem at a time and then I record them reciting it. They practice the poem everyday until they have it mastered. We choose our poems from The Random House Book of Poetry.

Latin: We started Prima Latin from Classical Conversations this year and it’s going well so far.

Math:Math-U-See Deltawe love this program and the boys really thrived on it last year. It’s a very hands on program and teaches in sequence.

History: Story of the World III… this is a great program that my son loves to listen to. He will sit and listen to the audio while coloring and I will ask him the workbook questions to make sure he was listening. Then we do map work and take the test. We don’t get into the projects much due to time but we try to do some of the literature suggestions and encyclopedia reading.

Science: Geography… We are exploring geography this year.

Religion:Bible Stories… we read a chapter at bedtime and it’s been great for all of us. Mom included. Getting through the Old Testament is easy with these Children’s Bible Stories.

Art & Art History: the children attend DHA and Zion’s Compass Co-op where they have 1 hour lessons each week that cover different subjects in art and art history.

Music & Music History:Piano Lessons… we take lessons with Michelle Sherer and it’s been great. It’s so fun to see them at their recitals. Voice Lessons… we take lessons with Havilah Bruder and we saw a drastic improvement in our older son’s singing in church.

He also will be doing soccer in the fall & spring, DHA 1 day a week, Zion’s Compass Co-op 1 morning each week.

Weekly Enrichment Program: Discovery Homeschool Academy(DHA)- homeschool enrichment one day a week. All the fun classes that you liked in public school: PE, Art, Music, Spanish, Science, Social Studies. We have class parties, field day, grandparents day, field trips and other fun activities with the fellowship of other homeschool families. They also have homeschool 101 classes for parents that were great.

Homeschool Co-op: Zion’s Compass Homeschool Co-op- one morning each week we join other families and share teaching! This year the subjects are Music, Art, Science, and History. The parents take turns to teach each of the subjects each week. It’s been fabulous and the children makes friends and enjoy experiences together.

Homeschool Support: I really enjoy The Well Trained Mind forum online and the book has been so helpful in navigating available curriculum. Once a month I am attending the Zion’s Compass Parent Night, which has guest speakers to help in different areas that appeal to homeschooling parents.

I saw a ton of ab challenges pop up on Facebook the last week of May and it’s really concerning to me. These ab challenges are geared toward mother’s wanting to flatten their tummies for summer after having babies. Crunches and sit-ups have been proven to compromise the pelvic floor and exasperate Diastasis Recti(split ab muscles post pregnancy). While I totally understand wanting to flatten my baby tummy, I don’t want to damage my pelvic floor or widen the split in my abs. So I decided to post about a safer exercise option and challenge that was short and effective. I combined Peak Fitness Exercises with core ab exercises that don’t compromise your pelvic floor or risk splitting your abs. While most postpartum mamas are ready to get back to their pre-baby shape with newborn in arm, these exercises are not recommended for new mamas, mamas with severe Diastasis Recti, or please consult your doctor or midwife. My youngest just turned 3 years old and my Diastasis Recti is one finger width, but I would have attempted this challenge when she was 1 year as well. You know your body and listen to your pelvic floor! You can tell when too much is too much. Alternatively Yoga is a very gentle and effective way to tone your body and reach overall physical fitness.

During your 30 seconds of high intensity you want to reach your heart rate max. The heart rate max which is a formula of 220 beats per minute minus your age. So for example my formula is 220-29(my age)=191 heartbeats per minute.

Mommy Tummy Safe Core Exercises:

If you have or had Diastasis Recti NO crunches or sit-ups, ever again. If you feel your core is strong you can attempt planks. If you try a plank and your core feels firm and engaged, carry on. But if it makes you feel as if your innards are falling out at the front, STOP RIGHT THERE! If you can do planks here are some great core exercises to firm your abs. Modify all plank exercises to be on your forearms instead of your hands to protect your pelvic floor.

Burpees (don’t do the jump up if your pelvic floor is weak, do a slight hop if it’s sound)

Plank Push Ups

3pt Plank

Active Plank

Mountain Climbers

Plank Pulls

Elevators

Reach and Slide

Stability Ball Roll Outs

Tips for best results:

Get a good night’s sleep

Avoid a high fat meal prior to exercising

Drink plenty of water

Eat healthy carbs (think vegetables) and high quality protein

Optimize your vitamin D levels

Avoid sugar, especially fructose

AVOID all sugar and fruit for 2 hours after these work outs because it will destroy the natural fat burning “human growth hormones” you created during your workout.

Do NOT do more than 3 of these high intensity sessions per week. It will wear your body out. You can do up to 5 if you are doing them at moderate intensity but you will get better results with 3 high intensity workouts. Think quality not quantity! Make those 30 seconds of high intensity count! Push as hard as you can. If you can keep going after 30 seconds you didn’t push hard enough.

Tool for easy application:

Download this FREE app for your phone to time your intervals! So handy and makes timing a breeze!

Essential Oils Help Shed Baby Weight:

A natural parenting friend of mine posted on social media about her attorney and naturopath friend who called the Missouri health department after an altercation with Marion County health department. State employees, at the Marion location, informed the mother that she was required to drive to Jeff City to obtain the religious immunization exempt cards needed for her child’s school records. Employee’s would not give this mother and others the cards stating that the “State told them not to pass them out.” Upset that the religious exemption law may have changed, the mother called the Missouri health department in Jeff City for clarification. Jeff City assured her the law had not changed and she was to obtain the cards at her local health department. The mother called the Marion department back to confront them about the situation. After being transferred through several employees the mother was finally told “well we ran out of cards and people rarely take one and we are for vaccinations.” The mother informed the state employee that she was not for vaccinations and that it was deceiving to tell parents that there was no religious exemption. The mother asked when they would have the cards on hand in the future and was informed that there was no law that required the Marion health department to have the cards at their location. The mother then informed the employee that she would be calling Jeff City to inform them of their refusal to carry the exemption cards. The employee quickly backtracked her position and promised to call the state and order the cards. The mother told her that she was happy to hear that they would no longer be misleading parents and they would supply the exemption cards. The mother intends to check back on the status of the cards at the Marion health department and may be making some calls to friends in high places. Marion employees might be shocked to find a huge package of religious exemption cards in the mail some day soon.

When I was in school, my parents also chose not to fully vaccinate my brother and I. At that point in time the school nurse was the one to supply the exemption cards. Depending on the nurse’s temperament and position on vaccinations it was either a simple exchange or altercation with her and my mother. These employees have no rights to refuse to supply parents with these cards. Whether it was the nurse in ’98, or the local health department employee in 2014, it is not their job to harass parents about their vaccination choices. It’s merely their job to hand over the cards.

Missouri parents have the legal right to supply their child’s school with a religious exemption card for immunization requirements. This card can be obtained at local county health departments or ordered from the following website. I have had several friends order from the website and received their cards promptly and without altercations with misleading state employees. If a state employee tells you that the state is not allowing them to hand out religious exemption cards, they are wrong. Inform them of the law and their requirement to provide you with the card when asked. It is not legal for them to deceive parents and refuse to supply the cards on this pretense.

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This website is to share my experiences as a stay at home mom, home manager, homeschool teacher, and farmer after a stressful business career. I am discovering a simple life at home. I enjoy sharing my pictures and videos of things I've learned. I hope it helps others in the constant quest to enrich the lives of our families.

I am the mother of four children who were born at home, breastfed, cloth diapered, co-slept, not vaccinated, worn in slings, and now classically educated in our religious home. Our family eats a reduced sugar, reduced gluten diet of local organic foods and we are building our dream farm. We aren't perfect, it's a learning process.